Quick Start Guide

Take a tour of GURL Friday, while you have GURL Friday open to view.

General information

All of GURL Friday's activities are begun from the opening screen clickers (the Main Menu). We'll run through them here, noting that most activities are performed on particular, specialized layouts (which we call "screens").

In addition, any GURL Friday screen whose clicker has a Help button has an associated help layout, accessible by clicking the Help button. You will probably use some of the functions available in GURL Friday less often than others, and may find a little online refresher helpful.

But, if you are a true devotee of the Macintosh way, just open up GURL Friday and start clicking buttons! Try the Import Netscape Bookmarks button first.

We recommend that you use the clicker buttons to get around in GURL Friday. Although FileMaker Pro mavens will know that FileMaker Pro has other ways to navigate around in a database, nifty scripts for resizing screens, sorting, and all kinds of neat stuff that you won't want to miss are built into the clicker buttons.

The Main Menu Function Clicker.

The buttons on this clicker perform scripted functions. Function buttons on any clicker are green.

The Main Menu Navigation Clicker.

The buttons on this clicker switch you to different GURL Friday screens. Navigation buttons on any clicker are blue.

Converting your first Netscape Bookmarks file.

You DO have Bookmarks, don't you?

We assume that you have been building a list of Bookmarks in Netscape using either the menu choices, or the shortcut Command-D to add a Bookmark. Note that while running Netscape you may View and edit comments for your Bookmarks using the shortcut Command-B.

Netscape keeps your Bookmarks as an HTML page that it continually updates. This "Bookmarks.html" file lives in your Netscape Prefs folder. It can be opened up for inspection with any word processor, if you are curious. You should never edit this file while it's installed, unless you want weird looking pages!

Conversion is easy.

To convert your unwieldy Netscape Bookmarks file to a nifty new GURL Friday database, simply click the Import Netscape Bookmarks button on the opening screen clicker, and navigate to your Bookmarks file in the ensuing FileMaker Pro dialog box. That's all there is to it!

Using GURL Friday to "Bookmark"

From now on, you should run GURL Friday while surfing, and use its "Get URL" function to add GF-URLs to GURL Friday directly.

Since you have imported your old Bookmarks file into GURL Friday, you don't want to do that again, or you will be adding duplicate GF-URLs to GURL Friday. So go to your Netscape Prefs folder, and drag your old Bookmarks file to the trash. Don't worry, Netscape will create a new, blank Bookmarks file when you first start it up, so that all is well with Netscape.


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